I don't think much of that matters in the day to day.
What we do have is food, clean water, climate controlled housing, and sanitation - all better than the richest royalty of the time.
In revolutionary France one particular cold snap without enough logs on the fire could kill your children.
Our actual quality of life in the day to day far surpasses the aristocracy of revolutionary France.
You don't rebel because someone has a nicer car than you, you rebel because you're starving and miserable. We're just not. We're comfortable and mildly annoyed someone else is more comfortable.
this doesn't contend with any of the very real advantages i listed that aristocrats had versus today's working class. overall i disagree with your position. some people in my state died just the other day because of this system: https://vtdigger.org/2024/12/04/its-heartbreaking-death-at-b...
> You don't rebel because someone has a nicer car than you, you rebel because you're starving and miserable. We're just not. We're comfortable and mildly annoyed someone else is more comfortable.
very easy to say from our tech worker point of view!
What we do have is food, clean water, climate controlled housing, and sanitation - all better than the richest royalty of the time.
In revolutionary France one particular cold snap without enough logs on the fire could kill your children.
Our actual quality of life in the day to day far surpasses the aristocracy of revolutionary France.
You don't rebel because someone has a nicer car than you, you rebel because you're starving and miserable. We're just not. We're comfortable and mildly annoyed someone else is more comfortable.